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Teachers, parents urge board to preserve elementary instructional-technology facilitators
Summary
Three teachers and a signed staff letter told the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board that planned reductions to full-time instructional technology facilitator (ITF) positions will harm students, add work for teachers and reduce campus-level tech support.
Speakers at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board meeting on an evening when the board heard public comment urged the district to reverse planned cuts to full-time instructional-technology facilitator positions.
Jeanette Dixon, a fourth-grade teacher, read several parents' letters and said the ITF position keeps students safe from online harms; she cited an incident at Scroggs Elementary in which staff detected a bullying campaign via Google Docs. "We are leaving students extremely…
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